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Environmental Crisis

Understanding the Value of Nature

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  • © 2000

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Authors:
  1. Mark Rowlands

    1. University College, Cork, Ireland

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  1. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. ‘Where the Danger Is Grows also That which Saves’

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 1-16

  3. Intrinsic Value and Why (We Think) It’s Needed

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 17-33

  4. Objectivist Theories of Intrinsic Value

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 34-50

  5. Subjectivist Theories of Intrinsic Value

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 51-73

  6. Radical Approaches to the Value of Nature

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 74-90

  7. Against Humanism I: Externalism

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 91-100

  8. Against Humanism II: Evolution

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 101-118

  9. Against Humanism III: Cognition

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 119-138

  10. Towards a Post-Humanist Theory of Value

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 139-160

  11. Perspectives on the Environmental Crisis: Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and Ecofeminism

    • Mark Rowlands
    Pages 161-178

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 179-191
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The worst chemical disaster ever could be happening right now. In India and Bangladesh between forty and eighty million people are at risk of consuming too much arsenic from well water that might have already caused one hundred thousand cancer cases and thousands of deaths. Many millions elsewhere in South-East Asia and South America may soon suffer a similar fate. Venomous Earth is the story of this tragedy: the geology, the biology, the politics and the history. It starts in Ancient Greece, touches down in today's North America and takes in William Morris, alchemy, farming, medicine, mining and a cosmetic that killed two popes.

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The Environmental Crisis is a work that every scholar of philosophy should be required to read, digest, and be provoked by.

-Environment

...[Rowland's] light and engaging writing style, his rich illustrations and frequent summaries suggest ...a great guide.

-Environmental Ethics

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  • University College, Cork, Ireland

    Mark Rowlands

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Mark Rowlands is Lecturer in Philosophy at University College, Cork, Ireland.

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